Thank you for your cooperation. We are updating the system with hot fixes and your VICR contract will be active later today.
Regarding to Bitshares, the plan is to enable payments to main digital currencies and BitUSD is certainly one of them. We will contact the devs of all main currencies to make this happen. It's worth mentioning that GadgetToken is pedged to one US dollar and the implementation is based on the Bitshares philosophy and concept.